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In her wonderfully crafted book, Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender, Ellen K. Feder provides an original philosophical account of the complex relationships between race and gender. Feder’s analysis begins where most others end: with the complaint that we seem unable to attend to both race and gender at the same time. Many philosophers, especially feminists of color, have worked hard to get others to notice our inability to discuss race and gender together. Feder builds on that work, with a particular indebtedness to that of Hortense Spillers, to provide an account of how and why we repeatedly fail to attend to multiple differences simultaneously, even though we know that they are intertwined. Feder achieves this by telling stories that reveal the different ways that power acts both within and on families to shape us as gendered and raced persons.

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Interviews with Spivak, entitled The Post-Colonial Critic.

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The Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy’s fall 2007 is about Noelle McAfee’s “Two Feminism”.

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The recently formed Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology is pleased to announce the launch of our website. SIFP was formed by Professors Bonnie Mann and Beata Stawarska, both faculty members in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon; Dr. Sara Heinämaa, Senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Professor of Women’s Studies at the Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, and International Adviser of SIFP; and Dr. Eva Maria Simms, Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and the National Adviser of SIFP. Please visit the new website, located at

http://whp.uoregon.edu/sifp

for more information about the society and our activities, to create a “scholars page,” join our listserve, and more!

SIFP’s activities have been made possible through funding from the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Philosophy.

A note from Jeffrey Paris, incoming Executive Editor: The Radical Philosophy Review invites scholars to submit articles and review essays. We publish in all areas of radical philosophy, including political philosophy, postmodern social theory, phenomenology, critical race theory, feminist, queer, and disability studies, political economy, analyses of war and empire, and more. The recent direction of the journal has been to inquire into the space where recent movements in European philosophy (analyses and extensions of the work of Foucault, Agamben, Zizek, Derrida, etc.) meet critical and post-colonial theory (Frankfurt School, post-Marxism, cultural studies, etc.). We are also interested in announcements of recently published books in radical philosophy that might be appropriate for review. For more information and to forward submissions, please contact Executive Editor Jeffrey Paris (Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco), paris@usfca.edu. RPR is a print journal, peer-reviewed and indexed in numerous periodicals including the Philosopher’s Index. Subscription information and Tables of Contents for all issues are available at http://pdcnet.org/rprtoc.html.

Radical Philosophy Review — Volume 10, Number 1 (2007)

Eduardo Mendieta & Jeffrey Paris: Editors’ Introduction

Articles

Mario Saenz: Living Labor in Marx

Kathryn Russell: Feminist Dialectics and Marxist Theory

Patricia Huntington: Listening to Zapatismo: A Reflection on Spiritual Deracination

Book Reviews

Paula M. L. Moya & Michael Hames-Garcia’s Reclaiming Identity, and Paula M. L. Moya’s Learning from Experience, reviewed by Mariana Ortega

Ann Cudd’s Analyzing Oppression, reviewed by Cynthia Willett

(h/t: Jeffrey Paris)

KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy | www.kritike.org ISSN 1908-7330

CALL FOR PAPERS | December 2007 Issue

KRITIKE is a Filipino independent, open access, peer-reviewed, and interdisciplinary journal of philosophy founded by a group of University of Santo Tomas alumni. The journal seeks to publish articles and book reviews by local and international authors across the whole range of philosophical topics and schools of thought. The journal primarily caters to works by academic philosophers and graduate students, but contributions by undergraduate students are also welcomed.

KRITIKE is interested in publishing original articles across the whole range of philosophical topics and schools of thought. Publishing in the journal is not limited to academic philosophers and philosophy majors; we do encourage contributors from disciplines other than Philosophy (Political Science, Literature, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Communication, History, Linguistics, Law, Economics, Natural Sciences, etc). The basic condition is that the paper should have a strong philosophical bent to it.

KRITIKE is also accepting book reviews of books published within the years 2004-2007 (2000 words maximum).

Please send your submissions to editors@kritike.org

Please visit of our CFP page for the guidelines for submission

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Metaphysics is the study of the basic structure of reality. It considers, for example, concepts such as identity, causation, substance, and kind, that seem to be presupposed by any form of inquiry; and it attempts to determine what there is at the most general level. For example, are there minds in addition to bodies? Do things persist through change? Is there freewill or is all action determined by prior events? It may seem bizarre, then, to suggest that there is such a thing as feminist metaphysics. What could be feminist or anti-feminist about metaphysics?

However, feminist theorists have asked whether and, if so, to what extent our frameworks for understanding the world are distorting in ways that privilege men or masculinity. What, if anything, is eclipsed if we adopt an Aristotelian framework of substance and essence, or a Cartesian framework of immaterial souls present in material bodies? And is what’s left out of such frameworks relevant to the devaluation or oppression of women? Feminists have also considered the structure of social reality and the relationship between the social world and the natural world. Because social structures are often justified as natural, or necessary to control what’s natural, feminists have questioned whether such references to nature are legitimate. This has led to considerable work on the idea of social construction and, more specifically, the social construction of gender.

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